Hello everyone!

As the title says, do you think it is too hard to get Merit? To get Merit, you need to produce high quality post. But not only that, someone has to consider the post to be of high quality. And not only that, that certain someone has to have Smerit... Now you need to meet those 3 criteria and everything has to be at exact time. So taking the time of posting the article into account too... So to get anywhere near sr. member rank now you need to produce articles of following criterias:

Variables:

• Quality
• Interest
• Smerit
• Time

Interest is produced by quality so you can say Quality=Interest, now you will get merit only if the interested person has Smerit, so Merit = Smerit * Interest (if the interested person has 0 smerit, you will get 0 merit), also you need to post it at a time the interested person would be online... So we need to update the Quality=Interest to Quality * Time = Interest. The time can move between 0 and 1. 0 being wrong time, the interested person would not be able to see the post so the interest = 0. 1 is being the correct time and your post will meet with the targeted audience.

If we put everything together, we get Merit = Smerit * Quality * Time. What can we deduce? First of all, if there is too little Smerit between users, you will never get merit even though you produce high quality posts... Second of all, if you post high quality psot at a wrong time, once again, you will get 0 merit. Lastly, if you post anything at the right time and people with enough smerit see it, but the quality is not high enough, once again you get 0 merit.

There are just too many variables and it is really difficult for new members to rank up. I have seen people with more Activity than me with 0 Merit, being jr. members or memebers (with difficulties). Is tehre any chance for the revision of the Merit system?

Thank you for your time and have a great day!